One of the things I didn’t notice until years after I first saw the movie (and I’ve watched it a bunch, it’s one of my favorites) is how Clarise is LOOMED OVER or pseudo-menaced by every male person of authority in the movie. In the first scene, when she’s running the training course, the instructor sent to fetch her hollers her name from behind, coming out of the woods unexpectedly, intruding upon her training in a creepy way (due to the setting more so than his interaction with her, although him watching her run past him as she leaves the training course seems like he’s tracking her).
Soon after, in the elevator down to Crawford’s office’s level, the other passengers of the elevator are all men who are significantly taller than her, and who look down on her (literally) either laciviously or dismissively. Crawford himself says her name (in his doorway, to get her attention) in a way that is designed to startle her. There are tons of scenes like this - the scenes with Chilton are especially menacing or dismissive.
Watching the movie with the intent of analyzing the male-female interactions really caused me to recognize that in many ways, Clarise is the “lamb” of the title, her discomfort at being on the receiving end of the male intimidation silenced by her uncertainty of how to navigate this male world she’s attempting to enter.